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The asset class has historically lagged others but is catching up fast, says Allison Spector, director of sustainability at Nuveen.
Three key environmental, social and governance trends in the private debt space.
How can we be sure impact investment claims are accurate? We go inside the race to develop better measurement frameworks.
Putting ESG at the heart of decision-making leads to better credit selection and higher returns, argue Theresa Shutt, CIO, and Paul Colatrella, managing director of infrastructure debt, at Fiera Private Debt.
As private debt funds hone their focus on ESG, the big challenge is to find effective ways to influence the management of the underlying asset.
Fund managers and investors are working together to ensure that responsible investment is moving up the private debt agenda, say Bridgepoint Credit’s Alex Hökfelt and Cathy Wang.
The head of private markets at Nest says off-market lenders have a lot of power to ensure their borrowers act responsibly.
The executive advisor of the European Leveraged Finance Association says more private debt funds will incorporate an ESG policy from top to bottom into their businesses.
Europe’s sustainable finance and climate change agenda creates a whole new compliance challenge for private debt funds.
Responsible investing goes to the heart of the single most important metric in the debt industry: risk.